Kleisch is currently an Engineering Technician at VP Buildings in Evansville WI.He also holds a Culinary Arts Degree and has much experience working with people to overcome challenges and solve problems.Mr.

If you didn't do your own homework, you bear at least some of the blame if an investment didn't work out.Let's think about being more careful in condemning an entire profession because you had a bad experience - most likely because you didn't do your due diligence.Let's try to point out the ONE bad apple and not burn down the entire orchard.

One was mostly burned out.  

If you're planning on only using rent to cover all repairs and expenses, you can be easily burned by an AC that goes out or a roof that needs to be replaced.

I'm a fellow software engineer myself, or well, was a software engineer for 4 years before I retired due to real estate :-)I also wanted to do buy-and-hold investing for passive income, but the numbers just don't work in this crazy market right now, so we are currently turning our focus to private lending for passive income instead.  

We created that modern, lofty feel in a burned out old multi.  

The owner is old timer kind of guy and I can tell he is starting to get burned out.

I would consider talking to a structural engineer. 

Sadly getting burned a little always helps you on the next flip! 

A guest fell in the fire pit and was badly burned incurring $265,000 in damages.